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Hidden Nature: The Startling Insights of Viktor Schauberger

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Alick Bartholomew has done a fantastic job in the writing of this book. While the few other books on Schauberger, most notably the books Living Energies, and the Eco-Technology series from Callum Coats, and of coarse, Olof Alexanderson's Living Water (the original pioneer) disect Schauberger's work...Alick puts it in simple, easy to read and understand words.
Many times I found that Coats' literal translation from German to English a bit much to take. Bartholomew takes all of Schauberger's conceptual ideas, and breaks them down into a series of (shall we say) modern English, comprehendable, and brilliant formats. The work is quite simply excellent. There were a number of times when I read through Callum Coats writings and was left with an unmistakable feeling of "what the heck did I just read...!" Not so with Bartholomew's writing.
Chapters include: Schauberger's Vision; Different Kinds of Energy; Attraction & Repulsion of Opposites; Nature's Patterns & Shapes; Energy Production; Motion, Key to Balance; Atmosphere/Electricity; The Nature of Water; Hydrological Cycle; Formation of Springs; How Rivers Flow; Supplying Water; The Role of the Forests; Tree Metabolism; Soil Fertility and Cultivation; Organic Cultivation; The Energy Revolution; Harnessing Implosion Power; Viktor Schauberger & Society and more.
I am not trying in any way to detract from buying one of Coats' books - they are a wealth of information, and the work is simply outstanding. What Bartholomew has done with HIS book, is put it in language that anyone can easily understand and comprehend in its entirity. The book is very well written, the illustrations are excellent, and all-in-all, it's probably the best book to start with in your exploration of Viktor Schauberger.

As a publisher of mind-body-spirit books for 35 years, I felt that of all the books I had published, the 6 books on Viktor Schauberger's insights into Nature's workings were the most significant. However, when I realised that they appealed mainly to a more specialised audience, I decided to write Hidden Nature, to bring Schauberger's topical research up to date for a wider audience. I was part of the editorial team that published Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962, and ever since have been campaiging against our society's violation of Nature.

An excellent book which covers all aspects of this extraordinary man's life and work. Essentiall it covers everything! Not too deep in technical detail but with such a wide scope, it does justice to the material. An excellent book for anyone interested in conservation and nature. Highly recommended!

Mr. Bartholomew, this is one of the greatest books I have ever read. I would say that it is the greatest if it wasn't for all the trinkets of truth that I have picked up reading countless other fat books and articles that have only touched what you fully expressed in the first 25 pages. It even looks lovely. I have not finished it yet, it just came in the post an hour or so ago this morning and I am up to page 25.

I have flicked through all the numerous, delightful illustrations, which on their own are the eye in the needle through which an infinite thread of knowledge, purpose, love and spirituality can come through. Never have I ever felt so validated in such a decaying world. The so called greatest of philosophers seem like cowardly politicians next to Schauberger. Your book is a bright light that shines enabling us to see everything's true place. We are all blessed with the wonderful opportunity to be validated and empowered by Schauberger and face what I believe is humanity's darkest moment. I will get everyone to read this. You have done a wonderful job of making his work available to the public, through just the mere 25 pages I have read.

I wish I would have discovered this book forty years ago (& 37 years before it was printed)- I do this New Age, holistic, alternative lifestyle stuff for a living & this book is far beyond anything I've ever encountered.

How anyone can start out daydreaming on a riverbank & end up inventing a flying saucer travelling 1500 miles per hour with antigravity properties that broke through the roof of its manufacturing plant.

And speaking of plants, Viktor's tree realizations and H2O's role on Earth is so different than anything ever conceived.

And speaking of conceived, it is very straightforward to conclude that if Germany would have discovered Viktor Schauberger's gadgets sooner, Germany would have been viktorious in World War II.

Viktor Schauberger's works are clearly synthesised into a hard ot put down volume encompasing earth energies, water, plants, soil, and free energy devices. A really big book - rewriting our known science texts. Open your mind and read it - i am sure it will challenge your notions of the world. A good primer for reading more of Schauberger's works.

With no formal training in the sciences, Schauberger made a "spiritual" connection with Nature. He understood that the Universe is not complex, and the Laws of Nature are actually very simple, since the highest wisdom passes directly from the brain into the heart.

This allowed him to understand how human interaction is destroying Nature, and how balance could and should be maintained so everything would flourish. "Highly ordered systems lose stability when their environment suffers deterioration." He predicted that a decrease in biodiversity in nature would lead to an increase in violence and a degeneration of spiritual qualities in humans. He also predicted how deforestation would lead to more violent weather worldwide. I think we've proven these predictions as accurate, and they were made before Al Gore was even born.

But, like other visionaries who challenged the establishment, Viktor posed a threat to those who benefitted from the status quo. From their perspective Nature exits to be manipulated and exploited for the "benefit" of humanity. There is no accountability.

The book is divided into sections dealing with water, trees and energy. Some of this gets moderately complex, but understanding the exact workings of how a tree pumps sap based on temperature gradient is not necessary to comprehending the basis of balance in Nature. The most fascinating discussion involved water, and the fact that it is a living entity.

Viktor Schauberger was an absolute genius, easily the equal of an Albert Einstein or a Nikola Tesla. He came from a family of foresters, and many of his early ideas came from watching the movement of water and fish in the forests he protected.

His knowledge was tapped by Hitler during WWII, leading the Allies to the suspicion that he might have been affiliated with the Nazis. He wasn't, but it is understandable why someone back then might have had concerns in that regard.

Schauberger's scientific contributions were many, and included some of the most mind-boggling ideas about propulsion of aircraft that have ever been produced. Even today, his ideas are light years beyond anything we have in production; at least the stuff our military/government will admit to. After Schauberger was released from military custody at the end of the war, he remarked that the Allies had confiscated his research and it was never returned to him. To the best of my knowledge, the research materials taken from him have to this day, never been declassified or released. That's not bad for 70 or 80 year old ideas, eh?

Perhaps his greatest contribution is his work regarding water, and its conservation. He produced water chutes to bring timber down out of the mountains that were copied the world over. He employed principles to work with the water that had never been considered before. For instance, he maintained, and rightfully so, that water has greater energetic capacity when it is chilled. The cooling of water and regulation of its temperature was one attribute of his timber chutes that made them work. No one believed what he said would work until he proved it by building a working prototype and proving it.

His single most mind-boggling idea is that virtually all our technology today is based upon the explosion. For example, in our cars, the engine works by combustion, with explosions pushing pistons, etc. This, says Schauberger, is absolutely the opposite of the way Nature works. Nature produces its energy through a process of implosion, which, he maintained, produces far more work capacity, while causing little or no environmental pollution. If he is correct, and there is every reason to believe he is absolutely correct, our entire technological foundation is heading us for some ultimate burnout. It cannot be sustained, and in attempting to do so it will continue to waste and destroy all our resources. It may yet be possible to turn this around by adopting the concept of implosion technology, but it remains to be seen if the economic powers of the world will have enough wisdom to pursue this course, or if they will ride the train of greed all the way until the tracks fall off the cliff.

I could go on and on, but you really need to read this book to get even a small idea of the scope of this man's thinking and his contributions. Like several other figures from the past, Schauberger's is a name that is only now beginning to be appreciated for the contributions he made, and the contributions the further implementation of his ideas are yet capable of making.

An absolute must read to understand the power of nature and water in particular.
Water is my main focus for staying healthy and finally found a revolutionary device that is creating high energy living water for me on the basis of Victor Schauberger's incredible insights way ahead of our time.

You will have a very comprehensive view of how the world works after reading this book. Amazing amount of information in this book.